Pete wrote:

lukey wrote:The new Finest stuff landed in my Tesco yesterday. The new rosemary potatoes are gash. That is all.

is "your" tesco now that shitehole in St Andrews high st?

Nope, still Dundee's slightly less Metroy shitehole.

Market Street is still stuck in 1962. There's no hope.

The new Finest stuff landed in my Tesco yesterday. The new rosemary potatoes are gash. That is all.

Frankly if you have to qualify your own motto perhaps its time to find a new one It's particularly odd because I've never seen the small print actually include references to the price perception surveys which scottishtv mentioned. Surely if the aim of the small print is to back up their claim, they...

I still don't understand what that small print clarifies. It's more contentious than the tagline alone.

You alluded to getting a Nexus 4, but broadly speaking, is there any reason not to just buy the phone you want and get a SIM-only plan on the network which suits you best? (being poor is an acceptable answer) You're always going to lose out when buying a phone on contract, the best you can do is mit...

Pete wrote:
Do other Tescos replace them this often or is my theory that Dundee gets used for testing due to having NCR & the call centre here correct?

It's plausible, although NCR Labs (unfortunately on its way out) was a bit more blue sky than actually iterating on their SelfServ stuff.

Whataday wrote:I'm going to call out New Look not to last the next 12 months.

Really? It seems to be where lots of she-people get their not-quite-Primark level of shite, and does quite well out of that.

The HBOS branches were always a bit nuts, and the products weren't so neatly delineated on business/personal lines. Going into the merger, I had BoS current and savings accounts. Post merger, when I got an ISA, this was a Halifax product (and was a regression, with passbooks instead of a card thing)...

My only experience with Windows 8 has been a brief play with a friend's laptop, and it wasn't pleasant. While I can't imagine ever considering the Metro experience a primary way of using a pooter, I can also accept I'm a bit odd, so wasn't against its existence per se. What I wasn't prepared for is ...

I've always been a fan of the WP look. I distance it from the Win8 incarnation of Metro only because that stretched credibility as an interface whereas WP has a certain fit and finish to it. I say this only because I'm still not sure whether I'd consider the changes in iOS 7 to really be stolen from...

I'm on board with most of the aesthetics, even though all the wank about 'hierarchical layers to establish context' == TRANSLUCENT KEYBOARD!!1! is a bit tiresome. I did squee a bit at the parallax effect, which I first assumed to be a purely superficial bit of gloss, but might actually offset some o...